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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

Van Morrison

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Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.
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I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.
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I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
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